Re: My son wants me to teach him Python

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Date	2013-06-15 03:12 +1000
Subject	Re: My son wants me to teach him Python
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have tab completion. Beat that, GUI.
>
> Decent GUIs *have* tab completion. Bad GUIs don't.
>
> Oh wait. Is a GUI with tab completion a GUI at all or more of a weird
> ass hybrid? What about a CLI that pops up a menu for completions?

Hmm. Not sure what you mean there. The nearest I can think of is the
way the file dialog (under Debian Wheezy + Xfce + SciTE; no idea who's
responsible, probably Xfce) will fill in directory components as I
type. But that's functioning almost exclusively as CLI style; I type
in parts of the path and it does things. To take advantage of tab
completion, I ignore the GUI-style of "point to the thing you want and
click". There's no real way for point-and-click to work with tab
completion.

ChrisA

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Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 21:18 +0100
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 20:33 -0700
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 14:02 +1000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-06-14 15:02 +0300
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 03:12 +1000
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 14:05 +1000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-16 12:04 -0700
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-17 07:52 +1000
          Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-16 15:33 -0700
            Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 21:11 +0000
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 06:11 +0100
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-14 06:13 +0000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 17:21 +1000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-06-14 05:41 -0500
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-14 15:35 +0000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-06-14 16:01 +0000
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 03:14 +1000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 13:03 -0400
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 02:28 -0400
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-14 20:12 -0400

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